On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:48:33PM -0800, John Millikin wrote:
> Now, there is one case where this function *will* follow symlinks.
> However, I believe it is a bug because it produces odd behavior:
I think this is an oddity in how symlinks to directories are treated.
You can remove one with removeFile but not removeDirectory, but
doesFileExist returns False and doesDirectoryExist returns True.
You probably don't want to use doesDirectoryExist directly here; C programs in this situation use lstat() instead of stat() to check for symlinks, but in the general case you want doesDirectoryExist to use stat() as it currently does.